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Amanpour: Paul Krugman, Dr Robert Gallo, Caroline Criado Perez & Dr Sharon Moalem

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Christiane Amanpour is joined by Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman to discuss how he thinks the global economy will fare as some countries begin to ease their lockdown measures. Walter Isaacson talks to Dr Robert Gallo, a world-renowned virologist who helped discover the HIV virus. He's now leading an initiative to repurpose the oral polio vaccine which he believes could provide some months of immunity. And Christiane speaks to Caroline Criado Perez, author of "Invisible Women" and Dr Sharon Moalem, author of "The Better Half" about why early statistics suggest that the coronavirus is killing more men than women.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

0:10.0

I'm going to have to make a decision and I only hope to God that it's the right decision.

0:17.0

President Trump under pressure for locking down too slowly and wanting to open up again too fast.

0:23.0

I asked New York Times columnist and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman,

0:27.0

how do you revive a dormant economy?

0:30.0

Then, Dr Robert Gallo helped discover the HIV virus.

0:34.4

Now he tells our Walter Isakson

0:36.9

why he thinks the polio vaccine could give

0:39.5

short-term immunity against the coronavirus.

0:43.0

Plus genetics and the human female,

0:46.0

does it give us an edge in the battle against COVID-19?

0:50.0

And... And The Sound

1:10.0

The Sound of Hope, Italian Tenor Andrea Bocelli, sings before Milan's magnificent empty Dromo Cathedral. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montpore working from home in London and

1:32.1

Britain is set to become the worst hit in Europe

1:35.4

while the United States passes a grim milestone as it reports the world's

1:39.9

highest number of coronavirus deaths more than 20,000 so far.

1:44.9

President Trump, his White House advisors and cheerleaders in the conservative media

1:49.8

are eager to get the country back to work sooner rather than later.

1:54.3

That pressure is difficult to resist, including here in Europe where some nations are planning

1:59.2

to slowly open up a bit.

2:02.0

Countries like Norway and Denmark, which say they have the situation

2:05.2

under control. While worse hit places like Italy and Spain are also easing some

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